Anders K.
@Falliblemusings
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We’re not a blank slate, but we’re the only ones with chalk and eraser
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"To write the poem of the human conscience, were it only that of a single man, were it only that of the most insignificant man, would be to meld all epics into one superior epic, the epic to end all." -Victor Hugo
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Want your kids to win in the AI era? Let them be the world’s best at being themselves.
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Reading Dante’s Inferno I was struck by the idea that there’s a place even worse than Hell: the Vestibule (Ante Inferno). It’s for those who refused to take a stance in life. The opportunists who shifted loyalty whenever it suited them. Their punishment is to chase a blank white
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Stop meditating and solve your problem
Pavel Durov (CEO of Telegram) shares why he never had depression:
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For everyone who doubts @DavidDeutschOxf's 'fun criterion' works in business:
Warren Buffett’s daily schedule: “You’d be surprised at my days. They are very unstructured. No meetings. None. I don’t like meetings. And I read a lot. …I don’t like to have things packed hour to hour to hour… It fits [my] personality…”
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magicians<wizards<sorcerers<people
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You probably know Newton revolutionized our understanding of the universe, but do you know how? In 1665 the Great Plague shut down Cambridge. The 23-year-old Isaac Newton went home to the countryside, and, with no lectures, no exams, no curriculum, his creativity exploded with a
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.@DavidDeutschOxf nails what elevates us above animals (and AI, for that matter): our thirst for explanations and capacity to create them.
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.@ToKTeacher : trying to understand Shadows better. Can you help me understand: you have the same photon going through two slits (one in each universe). What happens after they pass the slit? Does the “tangible” photon bounce into the “shadow” photons to produce the interference
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No matter how big a wealth increase AI leads to (the more, the better!), there will still be scarcity, so wealth will remain an incentive. And on top of that we will still have problems to solve - that can never stop.
Bret Weinstein just said something that won’t leave my head: For the first time in 300,000 years of human evolution, we removed the cost from the single biggest reward nature ever invented — sex and pair-bonding. Reliable birth control + abortion = you can now cash the
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<15% against. Pure politburo
Delighted that our blueprint to help keep children safe online has just passed in the European Parliament. A major step forward in supporting parents, strengthening protections, and putting young people first. Proud to have played a part in shaping this important work @EPPGroup
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Ilya Sutskever’s interview with @dwarkesh_sp is a great showcase of how the AGI community goes wrong on AGI (contra @DavidDeutschOxf), but maybe they are starting to get it? In this clip, Ilya shows that he’s inching towards the truth with this interesting analogy: “Suppose you
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There’s a time, around age 2-3, when kids wrap you in wonderful ‘why’s’. If that fades to merely a phase, you’ve failed.
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Hopefully one day it will be weird to not see oneself as cosmically significant. ~Conjecture Institute Cofounder @astupple
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